12 to 24 week pregnancy thread

Saffagal

hi ladies
working from home today and I'm so glad not to have my commute today!

Mogwai, I first started feeling flutters around 17 weeks and definite kicks from 19 weeks. When you start feeling movements will also depend on where your placenta is as an anterior placenta could mean you feel movements much later on as it acts as a cushion. It can also depend which way baby is lying; kicks towards your stomach are easier to feel than kicks towards your back at this stage. My placenta is posterior, and baby is breech.

Re antenatal classes, my comm mw team offer parentcraft classes (antenatal classes) at my gp's main surgery. I have signed up for their January classes as my mw suggested as the next set run through March and I'd miss some classes if baby's early. In my area its one evening for partners too, then three Thurs mornings. Although I can read up information online I'm looking forward to meeting other mums to be as part of the classes especially as I don't know many people near where I live.

Welcome to minimuffin and sparkles, and congratulations on your graduation to this thread Again depending on where you live, your mw may listen for baby's heartbeat at your next apt.

Hope we're all having a good day
Saf xx

dippydooda

Hi Ladies, guess it's time to join you guys! I am now 13+6 :-) Had a midwife app this week and heard the heartbeat!It was pretty amazing but felt like the midwifes rushed it a bit :-/ Going back in 3 weeks to have a blood test for Downs, I am in Wales so think the system is different here-I'd have to pay for a nuchal scan but the blood test gives a similar chance ratio result. Hope everyone's ok and enjoying their pregnancies :-)

Saffagal

Welcome dippydooda, isn't hearing the heartbeat amazing!

IHateDida

Saffagal wrote: »

Welcome dippydooda, isn't hearing the heartbeat amazing!

I haven't heard mine yet although I saw it pumping away at the ultrascan So I am waiting delivery of a doppler - I am hoping I will be able to find it - should arrive tomorrow so I will be prodding away at my belly in the hope of finding it tomorrow!

I had my first migraine whilst pregnant today (I suffer quite alot from them - stress induced so not much I can do!) - and I really didn't know what to do. I took a migraleve tablet (although I was half inclined not to - although a doctor did say that as they are parcetamol they were ok) - I am in a job which I just have to "carry on as best I can". I am hoping it didn't do anything horrible to baby. Fingers crossed I don't get any more - I am also suffering from a cold so already feeling sorry for myself!:(

Anyone else get migraines - if so, what do you do? I normally take Zomig which is a total no-no during pregnancy.

Nearly the weekend! Phew eh!

lazywife

Wow, welcome guys!
Don't worry if you don't feel baby until quite late on, only really feeling regular (ish) recognisable movements now at 21+3.
Need to start thinking about classes I think, there is an email address to contact for our area, so probably leave it until the new year.
Be careful with your own doppler, try not to get too addicted, some times the heartbeat will be hard to find, so try not to get too hung up on it, and go for the feeling I'd say.
Sorry for the migraines, don't get them myself, DH does and he's on imigram which I think is similar to Migraleve, he says he still gets the migraine, but it does go quicker than if he didn't have meds. Hopefully they'll be few and far between.
Defo look into some maternity jeans, I've loved mine, but donated by my Sister, so nice to not have to had gone maternity clothes shopping as it looks to me like mostly online and the sizes can be so variable. I've tended to be wearing the size I was before in maternity, and then normal, but baggy, tops... this may change as my growing bump is already rapidly expanding!
Hope everyone isn't finding Christmas prep too exhausting. I'm with you Bigbird mid afternoon sleepiness is definitely something to get used to, it's about 2pm lull for me, then proper perky until 10pm, then I just flop!
L.xxx

pippa80

Hi all,

How is everyone doing?

I am also getting afternoon tiredness, but I think that the nausea is fading. I haven't vomited for 2 weeks, but still retch from time to time. I'm 15 weeks today.

Excitingly my bump has popped out in the last couple of days! And my belly button has started pushing out a bit and is squishy!

I think I need to get into some maternity clothes soon. I bought some cheapy bundles on ebay, so will try them out over the weekend and might buy some stuff in the post christmas sales!

Hippymam

Sparkles, has your doctor given you anything to help with the sickness? I suffer from hyperemesis and my doctor has been amazing and I've been prescribed metochlopromide and avomine which seem to be helping a little bit with the sickness x

Queen_B_3

IHateDida wrote: »

Anyone else get migraines - if so, what do you do? I normally take Zomig which is a total no-no during pregnancy.

Hello just popping over from the big thread. I have suffered horrendously from migraine/headaches in pregnancy constantly from weeks 11-26. For weeks the DR would not give me anything stronger for them and I was told to take paracetamol which we all know isn't very good.

I was prescribed co codamol for PGP in week 25 and also found this helped my head too, but the best cure was......... Giving up work! Since I finished work within a week they had totally disappeared and in the past 5 weeks I've had one migraine which is a record for me.

I know not always practical for everyone but I was crippled with mine so struggled to get out of bed with mine.

Might be worth going back to your GP but they may be reluctant to prescribe anything as there is not much we can take.

IHateDida

Thank you Queen_B for the advice. I thought they might have stopped completely as I didn't get one at all in the first 3 months. I will ask midwife when I see her at the start of Jan about co codamol as the feeling is just indescribeable as to how you feel when you know you are about to have an attack.

On a lighter note - I heard baby's heartbeat for the first time today - with my newly purchased £20 doopler! It was amazing - I was worried incase I couldn't find it but I remembered where the sonographer had scanned me at 13 weeks and within around 20 seconds, I found it - very loud and clear! Fab piece of equipment - worth every penny - its put my mind at ease anyway as I'm not seeing midwife until I am 17 weeks so couldn't have waited until without worrying!

chonorla

Hello ladies - and all new ladies too!!!

Well back from my holiday this morning and have a hundred and one things to do now!!! We stayed in a log cabin in Sherwood Forest and the kids absolutely loved it So did me and DH Just working my way through the large pile of washing which is currently covering the kitchen floor.....

IHateDida - I had dreadful migraines when I was pregnant with my DD - I ended up in hospital twice because my vision was that bad. I can't remember what tablets I was given but they were about 6 days worth and were two different colours? I was given them from hospital so not sure if they are available across the counter. Thankfully, I have never had them in any of my other pregnancies - I get headcahes for the first 12 weeks but they disappear then.

Sparkles87 - Hope the sickness eases off soon. Can give no advice as I am still on medication at 24 weeks - But hey I am well over half way there now!! And no where near as bad as the early weeks, so its all worth it :T

mogwai - I have no advice on the antenatal classes either. I have never been to one ever Dreadful I know..

mrsj28 - Glad the heartbeat was easy to find :T Hope you are enjoying your time off!!!

Well ladies, am off to carry on unpacking and then finish my assignment. Have a lovely weekend everyone and hope the weather is good to those who are out finishing their christmas shopping xxx